Clint Eastwood

News about Clint Eastwood, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 1, 2015

Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's autobiography American Sniper is more complex than book, partly because of redactions made by Defense Department prior to publishing and partly because it featured events in years since book was written, including Kyle's death in 2013. MORE

Jan. 29, 2015

Cara Buckley The Carpetbagger column examines intense controversy surrounding Clint Eastwood film American Sniper, which has received six Oscar nominations; holds that movie's subject matter touched sensitive nerve, eliciting deeply opposing views on war from the left and right. MORE

Jan. 19, 2015

Clint Eastwood film American Sniper, patriotic, pro-family drama starring Bradley Cooper, is expected to earn surprising $105.2 million in ticket sales over four-day holiday weekend as viewers in America's heartland turn out en masse; American Sniper is first Oscar-nominated film to become blockbuster in field crowded with art house selections. MORE

Dec. 25, 2014

A O Scott reviews movie American Sniper, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper. MORE

Jun. 20, 2014

Feb. 25, 2014

Federal Judge Dale S Fischer expects to grant summary judgement against producer Ryan Brooks, who accused Warner Bros of basing Clint Eastwood baseball film Trouble With the Curve on script that belonged to him. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Darren Aronofsky and Clint Eastwood will take part in a public discussion as part of the Tribeca Film Festival lineup of panel discussions. MORE

Sep. 29, 2012

Mark Oppenheimer Beliefs column highlights the work of Dr Sara Anson Vaux, a professor of religion at Northwestern University; Vaux, who has studied actor and director Clint Eastwood's oeuvre, has published book The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood, in which she concludes that he is an ethicist and theologian. MORE

Sep. 1, 2012

Clint Eastwood's appearance at the Republican convention, in which he engaged in a rambling conversation with an imaginary Pres Obama, was set in motion by Mitt Romney himself, and made possible by his aides, who shrouded the actor's appearance in secrecy; Romney personally asked Eastwood to appear after the actor gave him a full-throated endorsement at a fund-raiser. MORE

Sep. 1, 2012

Op-Ed article by professor Jonathan D Moreno argues that Clint Eastwood's use of an empty chair to conduct an imaginary dialogue with Pres Obama at the Republican convention was strongly reminiscent of a technique that is often used in psychotherapy; contends, however, that by not putting himself in the chair and in the president's shoes, Eastwood missed an opportunity for therapeutic insight into the nation's deadlocked political system. MORE

Feb. 7, 2012

Most talked-about advertisement of the 2012 Super Bowl, which features Clint Eastwood likening Chrysler's comeback to the country's own economic revival, is denounced by conservatives as being pro-Obama; controversy serves as reminder that in today's polarized political climate, even a football championship can be thrust into a partisan light. MORE

Nov. 27, 2011

New York Times film critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis examine the theme of repression in David Cronenberg's Dangerous Method and Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. MORE

Nov. 13, 2011

Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column analyzes the controversial depiction of J Edgar Hoover as a self-loathing gay man in the Clint Eastwood-directed film J Edgar. MORE

January 29, 2015, Thursday

With a power base in the Southeast, Midwest and South — and an attention-generating debate over its political message or lack thereof — “American Sniper” (Warner Bros.) took in an estimated $64.4 million, for a two-week total of about $200.1...